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Leviticus 25:8
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6 And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you,
7 for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its produce shall be for food.

The Year of Jubilee

8 ‘And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; aon the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.  
10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and aproclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, band each of you shall return to his family.  
11 That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it ayou shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine.  
12 For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; ayou shall eat its produce from the field.  
13 a‘In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession.  
14 And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not aoppress one another.  
15 aAccording to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you.  
16 According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops.
17 Therefore ayou shall not oppress one another, bbut you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.  

Provisions for the Seventh Year

18 a‘So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; band you will dwell in the land in safety.  
19 Then the land will yield its fruit, and ayou will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety.  
20 ‘And if you say, a“What shall we eat in the seventh year, since bwe shall not sow nor gather in our produce?”  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Leviticus 25:8

Thou shalt number seven Sabbaths of years - This seems to state that the jubilee was to be celebrated on the forty-ninth year; but in Leviticus 25:10 and Leviticus 25:11 it is said, Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and, A jubilee shall this fiftieth year be. Probably in this verse Moses either includes the preceding jubilee, and thus with the forty-ninth makes up the number fifty; or he speaks of proclaiming the jubilee on the forty-ninth, and celebrating it on the fiftieth year current. Some think it was celebrated on the forty-ninth year, as is stated in Leviticus 25:8; and this prevented the Sabbatical year, or seventh year of rest, from being confounded with the jubilee, which it must otherwise have been, had the celebration of this great solemnity taken place on the fiftieth year; but it is most likely that the fiftieth was the real jubilee.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Leviticus 25:8:

Leviticus 16:29
Leviticus 25:8
Daniel 9:24
Luke 4:18

 

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